In Occupied Palestine
Zionism in practice
Israel’s Daily Toll on Palestinian Life, Limb, Liberty and Land
08:00, 21 December 2025 until 08:00, 22 December 2025
Sanction Israel
Gaza‘s death, injury and sickness
totals continue to rise
21 December – 22 December 2025:
Killed: 4
Wounded: 7
Totals since 7 October 2023: killed 70,937 – wounded 171,192
Since dawn, Israeli tanks shelling and Army gunfire, have killed four more people and injured seven. Civil Defence crews retrieved eight more bodies from underneath bomb-damaged property, bringing the total number now killed in Gaza, since 7 October 2023, to at least 70,937. The total wounded is now at least 171,192. The daily average number of men, women and children killed in Gaza is at least 88 and, that of those injured, is more than 212. A UN report states that, as of 14 January 2025, around 70% of those killed in Gaza were women and children.
Israeli death penalty bill violates international law:
Israel pushes death penalty for Palestinians, prompting accusations of racism and violations of global conventions.
Palestinian prisoners in Israel already face horrific conditions, with a rights group documenting the deaths of at least 94 of them in the past two years, as well as the rape of prisoners caught on camera. The far-right Israeli minister responsible for prisons, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has proudly declared that conditions have become harsher for Palestinian prisoners under his watch. And in late October, he stood over Palestinian prisoners forced to lie face-down on the floor as he called for the death penalty to be introduced for those he termed Palestinian “terrorists”.
International humanitarian law and the right to Resistance
The move to legalise the death penalty is part of a broader effort to strip Palestinians of their protections under international humanitarian law as an Occupied people, with a right to resistance.
West Bank
Israeli Army attacks – 2 wounded: Jerusalem – 17:00 and again at 22:15, Israeli Occupation forces opened fire, from the Annexation Wall adjacent to Al-Ram towards people trying to get to work in the city, wounding and hospitalising two people: Hadi Ahed Yousef Melitat and Amin Ali Amin Taha.
Israeli Army attacks – refugee camp: Jenin – the Israeli Army, firing live ammunition, continued its storming of the city and the refugee camp.
Israeli Army attacks – refugee camps – home invasions: Tulkarem – Israeli forces, firing live ammunition and tear gas canisters, continued to storm the city as well as the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, invading and occupying homes, to use as military posts.
Israeli Army attacks – refugee camps – home invasions: Tulkarem – Israeli troops, firing live ammunition, stormed the city as well as the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, and invaded several homes.
Israeli Army attacks – 1 youngster wounded – another abducted: Qalqiliya – 20:30–22:40, the Israeli military, firing live ammunition,stormed the city and invaded a number of homes, wounding a youngster, 16–year–old Youssef Bassam Jabara, and one other person, Ghassan Khaled Ghassan Shuaib. The Israeli forces also abducted a 17–year–old youth: Abdul Karim Nabil Abdul Karim Daoud.
Home invasions and destruction – 2 taken prisoner: Jerusalem – morning, Israeli Occupation forces, demolishing an apartment building in the Wadi Qaddum area of Silwan, took prisoner two residents.
Home invasions: Tubas – 08:05, Israeli forces raided the village of Atouf and invaded a number of homes.
Home invasion: Tulkarem – 18:20, the Israeli Army raided the town of Allar and searched a house.
Israeli Occupation population–control – schools closed and students forcibly removed: Jerusalem – the Israeli Occupation closed the Noor Al-Quds Schools and Kindergartens in the Silwan neighbourhood, claiming they disturbed settlers, and forced out students to other schools, without informing parents or obtaining consent.
Israeli police and settlers’ mosque violation: Jerusalem – 08:00, Israeli settlers, escorted by Occupation police, invaded the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and molested worshippers.
Israeli Army olive harvest sabotage: Salfit – morning, Israeli forces bulldozed olive groves, north of the village of Yasuf, which are near the Kfar Tapuach Occupation settlement.
Occupation settlement development land-grabs: Jerusalem – the Israeli Government approved the establishment of 19 new Occupationsettlements in the West Bank governorates, within the territories occupied in 1967. These are: 6 in the Central West Bank – 7 in the Northern West Bank – 3 in Bethlehem – 2 in the Jordan Valley and 1 in Hebron.
Occupation settler stoning: Ramallah – 10:05, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles at the Yabrud village bridge.
Occupation settler land-grab – and agricultural sabotage: Ramallah – 11:20, Occupation settlers seized agricultural land, in the Sheikh Ar area near Deir Dibwan, and began cultivating it.
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Ramallah – 13:50, Israeli settlers invaded Al-Mughayir agricultural land and stole a number of olive tree saplings.
Occupation settler violence and injury: Tubas – 23:25, Israeli Occupation settlers severely beat-up and hospitalised two people, Walid Thabet Sawafteh and Mu’taz Mamoun Anabseh, in the Al-Buqai’a area, near the village of Atouf.
Occupation settler raid – Israeli Army complicity – 3 people injured: Tulkarem – 14:40-17:30, in support of raiding settlers, Israeli Occupation forces stormed into agricultural land in the Al-Duwayr area, near Beit Lid, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, injuring three residents: Mustafa Attallah Attallah, Ghadi Al-Akhras and Khaled Murad Shtewi.
Occupation settler terrorism: Nablus – 10:40, Israeli settlers invaded Duma village and terrorised residents, roaming threateningly around and between their homes.
Occupation settler stoning: Salfit – 21:00, Israeli Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles, at the Haris village intersection.
Occupation settler terrorism: Jericho – 10:05, Israeli settlers terrorised the Al-Auja Bedouin community, roaming threateningly around and between their homes.
Occupation settler stoning: Bethlehem – 20:10–22:30, Occupation settlers stoned passing vehicles, at the Al-Maniya village roundabout.
Occupation settler land-grab: Hebron – 19:15, Israeli settlers took over the Khilat al-Daba’ area, in Masafer Yatta, and set up camp.
Occupation settler raid and assault on schoolchildren: Hebron – 09:00, Israeli Occupation settlers raided the Fatih Sidra area, east of Yatta, and assaulted several schoolchildren.
Occupation settler raid accompanied by Settlement Minister: Hebron – 16:10, the Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strock, accompanied Israeli settlers, in an invasion into the Tarousa area of Deir Samit village, where they set up a menorah (candelabrum).
Occupation settler agricultural sabotage: Hebron – 21:55, Occupation settlers invaded agricultural land in the Al-Buwaib area of Masafer Yatta and stole property.
Raid: Ramallah – 14 :10, Israeli Occupation forces raided and patrolled the city of Al-Bireh.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:10, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the village of Ein Arik.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:25, the Israeli Army raided and patrolled the village of Jifna.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 15:35, Israeli troops, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled the village of Dura Al-Qara.
Raid: Ramallah – 15:55, the Israeli military raided and patrolled the village of Ein Yabrud.
Raid – surveillance: Ramallah – 18:40-20:30, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Nabi Saleh, invading several shops and examining their security-camera footage.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Ramallah – 18:55, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided and patrolled Turmusaya.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 01:50, Israeli forces raided the Jalazoun refugee camp, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 2 taken prisoner: Ramallah – 01:50, the Israeli Army again raided and patrolled the village of Jifna, taking prisoner two people.
Raid: Jenin – dawn, Israeli forces raided Silat ad-Dhahr as well as the village of Fandaqumiya.
Raid – 3 taken prisoner: Jenin – dawn, Israeli forces raided Araba, taking prisoner three people.
Raid: Tulkarem – 18:20, Israeli troops raided and patrolled the town of Anabta.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 14:50, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the town of Beit Furik.
Raid: Nablus – 16:55, Israeli soldiers raided and patrolled the town of Aqraba.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Nablus – 18:40, Israeli Occupation forces, firing stun grenades, raided the village of Awarta, taking prisoner one person.
Raid: Salfit – 14:10, Israeli forces raided and patrolled the town of Deir Ballut.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Bethlehem – 14:45-17:55, the Israeli Army, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the village of Rashida.
Raid: Hebron – 12:30, Israeli troops raided and patrolled Halhul.
Raid – stun grenades fired: Hebron – 22:50, the Israeli military, firing stun grenades and tear gas canisters, raided and patrolled the town of Al-Karmil.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – 03:30, Israeli soldiers raided the city, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – dawn, Israeli Occupation forces raided Surif, taking prisoner one person.
Raid – 1 taken prisoner: Hebron – dawn, Israeli forces raided the village of Abu Al-Asja, taking prisoner one person.
Dear All
I am a war refuser, I spent 21 months in an Israeli prison at the age of 18, and today I serve on the board of Refuser Solidarity Network, supporting others who resist war. As the crisis in Gaza and the West Bank continues, groups resisting Israeli oppression are stepping up to continue our struggle.
You can help – please support resistance to the Israeli attacks in Gaza and the West Bank here.
I have been a peace activist for nearly 30 years, since I was just 13 years old. Throughout my life as an organizer against the occupation, I have experienced periods of intense political hardship, but nothing comes close to the unbelievable loss and pain of the last two years of genocide and horror.
Like you, in the last two years, I witnessed the massacre of 70,000 Palestinians against the will of the global majority. I also witnessed the collapse of the Israeli peace camp after the atrocities of October 7th. During these difficult two years, Refuser Solidarity Network supported, amplified and in some cases incubated the central groups within Israel who resisted and refused heinous war crimes. In confronting the worst crime in Israel’s history, a genocide, we also worked to grow the biggest wave of refusal by soldiers in Israel’s history, a wave that you helped create with your donations and support. Now we need to make sure that this wave does not stop.
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I truly believe that we now have an opportunity to end the occupation. Internationally, more than ever, the demand of justice for Palestinians became a majority demand, one that now defines a generation of young activists, so popular that it is likely bigger than international resistance to Apartheid in South Africa in the 1980s.
And Israeli citizens, possibly for the first time, understand their vulnerability. They understand that the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza are not sustainable. Israelis learned the hard way that the siege of Gaza and the occupation in the West Bank are a ticking bomb. And even though this vulnerability is currently exploited mainly by ultranationalist and right-wing politicians, in the long term it offers a real opportunity: to end the occupation.
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As someone who just spent six years researching and teaching strategy of social change at the University of Michigan, I know that theory and research on social change say this type of crisis is also a huge opportunity. During the genocide, a significant momentum was created. But now is the crucial time: as the world shifts its gaze from Gaza, we need you to help us.
Today we are asking you to join us by contributing to our campaign: we need to raise $50,000 to support the next wave of refusers. Our call is urgent: support our work by giving to our end-of-year campaign, we are trying to raise $50,000, and are currently only at $35,000.
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In 2002, I was imprisoned by the Israeli government at the age of 18 for refusing to serve in the Israeli army. Amnesty International declared me a prisoner of consciousness as I moved through dozens of cells over the years I spent behind bars. For two years, I was forced to internalize that I was a second-class human as prison guards, politicians and military courts made an example out of me and my fellow refusers.
Yet, prison was a period of intense invigoration and pride for me. I refused to bend, and my peers’ and my imprisonment stirred the hearts of many who would go on to join the refuser movement. Upon my release, I helped lead Refuser Solidarity Network, becoming its global coordinator. From a very dark moment in my life, the seeds of something larger than myself were planted.
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In my 30 years as an activist for peace and justice, the last two years of a livestreamed genocide were the hardest two years I’ve ever had to bear, more so than my 21 months in jail as a teen. To see the process that Israel is going through, that my family is going through, that my friends are going through, the normalized support for war crimes and genocide, has left me devastated. As a father to two children, I can only shudder at the impossible thought of losing a child. Over 20,000 children were killed in Gaza.
These were two years from hell, and yet I am proud of the work we have done thanks to you: we supported, amplified and trained war resistance groups in Israel, including the two main groups of soldiers and veterans that started to organize war resistance during the genocide. The period after the war is critical: this is when new groups collapse or thrive. Because we organize for the long term, and towards an end to the occupation and Aperthaid, now is when we have a real opportunity to prevent the next war, the next genocide. And it’s something you can help us with.
We cannot react to wars when they knock, we need to build a resistance front that stops them before its too late, and we need your help to do this crucial war.
My two years in prison were very dark, at times hopeless and scary. At other times empowering and full of hope.
The support I got from Refuser Solidarity Network, from people like you, was extremely helpful and important.
On behalf of war resisters, past and future: Thank you!
In solidarity,
Shimri Zameret
Global Coordinator
Refuser Solidarity Network
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